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I Love To Go Out In Late September Among The Fat, Overripe, Icy, Black Blackberries To Eat Blackberries For Breakfast, The Stalks Very Prickly, A Penalty They Earn For Knowing The Black Art Of Blackberry-making; And As I Stand Among Them Lifting The Stalks To My Mouth, The Ripest Berries Fall Almost Unbidden To My Tongue, As Words Sometimes Do, Certain Peculiar Words Like Strengths Or Squinched, Many-lettered, One-syllabled Lumps, Which I Squeeze, Squinch Open, And Splurge Well In The Silent, Startled, Icy, Black Language Of Blackberry - Eating In Late September.

The Bud Stands For All Things, Even For Those Things That Don't Flower

Go So Deep Into Yourself, You Speak For Everyone.

Perhaps Poetry Will Be The Canary In The Mine-shaft Warning Us Of What's To Come.

Sometimes It Is Necessary To Reteach A Thing Its Loveliness